I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
I'm a believer in film school.
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.
I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!